Author(s): Öner Özdemir
Publisher: Masa Vidovic
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 826
00 preface_ Current Cancer Treatment – Novel Beyond Conventional Approaches......Page 1
Part 1......Page 17
1 Breast and Ovarian Cancer Treatment:
Facing Forward Women´s Health Care......Page 19
2 Adjuvant Therapy for
Resectable Colorectal Cancer
Liver Metastases......Page 43
3 The Treatment of Metastatic Liver
Disease of Colorectal Origin......Page 57
4 Th1 Cytokine-Secreting Recombinant Bacillus
Calmette-Guérin: Prospective Use in
Immunotherapy of Bladder Cancer......Page 79
5 The Role of Irradiation in the Treatment of
Chordoma of the Base of Skull and Spine......Page 107
6 Clinical Application of Image-Guided Iodine-125
Seed Implantation Therapy in Patients with
Advanced Pancreatic Cancer......Page 125
7 V-ATPase Inhibitors in Cancer Treatment and
Their Implication in Multidrug Resistance
in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma......Page 145
8 Farnesyltransferase Inhibitor
in Cancer Treatment......Page 165
Part 2......Page 189
9 Laser Photo Chemotherapy:
An Alternative Treatment for Cancer......Page 191
10_Laser-Driven Radiation Therapy......Page 215
11 Ion Channels: Novel Functional
Hubs in Leukemia......Page 243
12 Targeted Therapies in
Hematological Malignancies......Page 271
13 New Approaches Targeting Androgen
Receptor Signal Pathways for Treatment
of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer......Page 297
14 Prostate Cancer:
Current and Emerging Therapies......Page 323
15 Adjuvant Therapy for Early Breast Cancer......Page 349
Part 3......Page 369
16 Harnessing the Immune System
to Fight Cancer: The Promise of
Genetic Cancer Vaccines......Page 371
17 NKG2D-Based Cancer Immunotherapy......Page 411
18 Xenovaccinotherapy for Cancer......Page 431
19 Cancer Vaccine......Page 445
20 The Management of Small Renal
Tumours by Ablative Therapies......Page 459
21 Cancer Treatment with Hyperthermia......Page 471
22 Antiangiogenic Treatment Concepts
in Gynecologic Oncology......Page 491
23 Photodynamic Therapy in Combination
with Antiangiogenic Approaches
Improve Tumor Inhibition......Page 505
24_Cancer Gene Therapy:
The New Targeting Challenge......Page 535
25_Epigenetic Therapies for Cancer......Page 557
26_Electrotherapy on Cancer:
Experiment and Mathematical Modeling......Page 601
Part 4......Page 637
27_Antioxidants in Cancer Treatment......Page 639
28_Cytotoxic Plants: Potential Uses in Prevention
and Treatment of Cancer......Page 667
29_Combination Chemotherapy in Cancer:
Principles, Evaluation and
Drug Delivery Strategies......Page 709
30_Multimodal Therapies for Upper Gastrointestinal
Cancers – Past, Now, and Future......Page 731
31_Evidence-Based Usefulness of
Physiotherapy Techniques in
Breast Cancer Patients......Page 767
32_Negative Impact of Paclitaxel Crystallization on
Hydrogels and Novel Approaches for
Anticancer Drug Delivery Systems......Page 783
33_The Evolving Role of Tissue
Biospecimens in the Treatment of Cancer......Page 799